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Margarete Landau: Bag fee program fails while the city collects

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07/23/2013 01:00:00 AM MDT

I wanted to write this along time ago, when the Boulder City Council was debating the matter. What it comes down to is this: When you do not bring your own bag it costs you 10-cents per bag. When you do bring your bag you have to buy plastic bags to put your garbage in.

So the landfill gets the same amount of plastic bags that take 500 years to disintegrate. Meanwhile the city of Boulder is collecting some of the 10-cents per bag. Quite a nice little extra income.

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